Gift Card Holder Folder Tutorial

OK, I know I'm long overdue on this tutorial (Thanks Ninette for pointing that out...LOL). Please excuse the horrible pics, I was using my POC:



CS measures: 11 x 4.25
Score at: 3, 5.5 and 8
Fold like the pic


At this point I adhere my DP paper you can do this at any point since it's a flat project. Place adhesive as shown:


Once you've adhere it together use oval punch (about little less than half way of the punch) and punch as shown in picture.


Then cut about a quarter off like shown:



There you go! I know it's not the best tutorial, but it's so simple a Caveman can do it (^o^). Email me if you need more help/instructions.

Aloha!

Softball Anya

Yeay!!! Another Anya stamp! Too cute, don't you think? I wanted to finish my project, but when I saw the new stamps I just had to play with at least one! LOL! I may try and work on another! However I'm getting really, really sleepy! Hahaha! What shall I do?

Anywayz, onto my card, made it just to make! I always need a card so why not...here ya go...

Me - Digital Layout

Since I'll be teaching Digital Scrapbooking at Pineapple Cove at Kahala Mall on Aug 29, from 1 - 3. I thought I'd post a digi LO. This one was for a challenge I did back in 07 about me for my AAM (All About Me Book).

I was planning on posting a project that I'm working on for a Craft Fair I'm participating in. However this project is very labor intense. Needless to say, I have a few more things to do before I can post. OK, maybe not a few, I guess I'm only halfway done. I'm starting early so I can work out the kinks and be ready for this Fair! TFS!

It's that time...

...for another blogwear give-away! Please leave a comment and tell me how you found my blog. That's it!

Here's what you'll win along w/a personalize banner. You have until Friday night to enter!

This weekend was so much fun! Teri of Big Ideas From a Little Girl organized an Island Blog Get Together! So much fun! Meet so many great bloggin' sistah and then some! They gave such great goodies! I'll try to take pictures of them, but I'm pretty sure if you visit any of the Island Girl's blogs you'll see them all!

BTW, the blogwear and banner that I'm sportin' is from Mindy's latest kit called Plumeria available at Designer Digitals.

New Moon

Can't wait for this movie to come out!

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Sis bday gift

OK, so this is what I made for my sister:

We both love Bridget Jones's Diary and I thought sending her money w/o a gift was lame-o. Plus I wanted to make this tote to house it in just so it's different. The front carries her bday card w/her mula and the thank you card I made using the GG image (previous post). In the back I put popcorn (as if you can't see...lol). I would have put some M&M's but she's not into sweets. Figure money was more her cup of tea! LOL!

On another note, I decided to put a twist on the blogwear giveaway, instead of forcing the winner to win the cupcake blogwear (some could care less for cupcakes, I know, hard to believe...haha), I decided to let the winner choose which blogwear they'd prefer. Sounds good?

Oh and before I forget, I've updated all the SU! catalogs, brochures and latest specials on the right hand side. Please feel free to check them out and email me should you have any questions or would like to order.

OK, thanks everyone as always for stopping by! Aloha!

Sister bday card take 3...

OK, I know you guys must think I'm nutso! LOL! I really wasn't happy with the first two cards! hahaha! I think I'm all right with this one now! I need to hurry up so I can send it this AM along with her present! I'm such lagger! Anyhow, I will not change her bday card anymore! hahaha! The card I made yesterday will be a "thank you" card for her for her Christmas and Bday present she just sent...yes, you read that correctly, I just got her Christmas and bday gift the other day! Hmmm, we're a family of lagger! hahaha! Anyhow, here's the card!

Sis Bday Card

OK, not too sure about this card, I like it better than yesterday card but there's something missing...and if you know me, I don't like to put too much on my cards. Yup, that's me, simple!

Oh before I forget, I've had some people ask me about my Copics purchase. They're about $4 for the Sketch and I think $2.97 - 3 for the Ciao. I actually prefer the Ciao's cause their brush tip isn't too flimsy for me. But I do buy a mix of both. You can buy them as a set or individual. The store I get them at has a frequent buyer card so you may want to ask the store you're at if they have any. I'm not too sure where in Tokyo you can buy them, but your best bet are the Stationery stores in Japan. Stationery stores in Japan are huge! I get mine at the store right off the Naval base on the way to the train station. If you are in that area and would like to know exactly where please email me and I'll give you directions.

Yeay! No Hurricane!

The State of Hawaii was lucky that Hurricane Felicia was a no show! Yeay! Scary with all the talk, and yeah, I know I was a bit worried and cautious but hey I've only lived on this island for 18 months and hopefully during my duration here, I will not encounter one! LOL! I am however sad that it did not rain much. I love the rain and love being home during one of those rainy days with hot chocolate and a good movie on! No such luck (@_@).

Anyhow, I was not in a creative mindframe and tried to make my sis a birthday card. Came up with the picture below and after it was done I didn't feel it was good enough to send her. It is however good enough as a birthday note card (is that what they call it? You know the one that goes on the gift?). So I won't be sending this card to my sister and will be making another tomorrow. Thought I'd post it anyways since I really don't have anything to post today. I'm also posting my Copic goodies that I got from my trip to Japan.

OK, enough rambling, here are the pics! TFS! Aloha!

Belated Happy Bday Dad!

I'm late with my dad and sister's bday gifts and cards! This month has been crazy hectic for me. Then again whenever I come back from a vacay I'm always so busy! I have all my weekends booked this month. I feel bad that I didn't get their packages out on time, but I hope they understand. My dad and sister share their birthdays so it was double whammy! It seems like almost all my dh's siblings and wives and my siblings and dad have bday's this month! Ugh! LOL! Anyhow, here's a card I Case'd from Pam Varnell. Everything is pretty much the same except the color. TFS!

Blog Sistah's!

This past Saturday me and a few other bloggin' sistahs went to Teri's (Big Ideas From a Little Girl) to help her prepare a few things for an event she's hosting. It was so much fun gettin' to know all who went! I hadn't laughed this much in so long! Great times and great ladies! I wanted to make them a little something cause all of these ladies had given me a RAK.

(sorry for the blurry photo, I was in such a hurry to take these cause I was running a little late)

Happy Birthday to my dear hubby!

Yesterday was my dh's bday. Usually I make him a card digitally with the doggies. But this year, I decided to make it the old traditional way. I thought the stamp from GG was perfect along with the sentiment that I found in a gallery (please don't ask as I just pulled the pic out for inspiration) I didn't lift the card, just the sentiment, got the layout of the card from a sketch, not sure if it was from Mojo Monday or not. I'm horrible like that, so sorry. If this is your saying or your LO sketch please feel free to email me so I can give you credit.

We celebrated his birthday by going to Alan Wong's (love that place). But before we went in, I wanted to make a pit stop at J's hahaha! Dh was sweet to humor me, he even joined me and looked through the sports card while I looked around. Dinner was great, dessert was even better! I ordered the coconut ice cream and dh ordered the banana split. If you've never been, you've got to go!!! All right enough babbling here's my bday card for my dh...again, I can't stress how much I love the sentiment and how perfect it was! haha! TFS!

Blog Wear Winner

....and the winner is:




Congratulations Janis!!! Please send me what you'd like on your blog banner.

Blog Candy from Jodi!

All, Jodi from Inked Inspirations is giving away some blog candy, head on over to her blog for your chance to win! Good luck everyone!

Blog Wear

Happy Aloha Friday! I've decided to give away my previous blog wear that I created using Mindy's kit every month. So if you're interested, leave a comment, with your blog link (so I can visit) and tell me what your favorite stamps are. I will do random drawing and the winner gets one of my previous blog wear. What do you think about that? LOL! I know it's not much, but I get asked to do other people's background, I just don't have the time. So I figured why not the ones I've already used. And not to worry, only one person gets it so there won't be the same one out there in blogland.

So here's the first blog wear giveaway:

I will also create a blog banner to match.

Plumeria by Mindy Terasawa

Sorry I haven't been blogging much! So much to take care of around the house, with the get together's, orders to fill and the class I will be teaching at Pineapple Cove. To top it all off, my poor little Roxy has been sick and I've had to take her to the vets. She seems to be doing all right, she's on meds. The issue wasn't as bad as I thought but the doctor found several other issues. Oye! Anyhow, enough about that!

Here's Mindy's latest kit called Plumeria. Will be available this coming Sunday at DD.

Back in Paradise (^o^)

Aloha fellow crafters! I'm back and slowly getting over my jet lag! Japan was awesome as usual! Before we left the forecast was predicting thunderstorm and rain however we got lucky it was sunny pretty much the whole time! The heat and humidity was awful but hey, we were in Japan! I didn't buy much (to my dh's surprise) but I definitely bought a whole bunch of COPICS! Ahhh, the land of Copics (OK, more so the creators of Copics) was happy I was visiting (^o^)

Anyhow, I have only visited a few bloggers but you can count on my visit once I get back to my regular routine! For now, I am posting an altered Anya/Ian stamp (excuse the horrible pic, I retouched the card and it looks a little better!). Thanks for stopping by!!

Blog Vacation

Aloha! I won't be updating my blog until I get back from my vacay! Have a great week everyone!

Sayonara!

It's Friday!

Hi all! Sorry I've been MIA! Been soooo busy this week! Tryin' to get everything ready for my trip and takin' care of stuff that needs to be taken care of before I leave. You all know how it goes!

Anyhow, real quick post as I need some shut eye cause tomorrow is another day of running around taking care of last minute things. The card that I made which believe it or not took me all night (this was the second card, ripped the first one apart it was that ugly!). I know, it's not the greatest card but really if I posted the first one, I'd loose all my visitors...LOL! OK, ok, I gotta get to the card! As usual I wanted to rid all my scraps so I am using the same DP I used for the last purse I made for my parent's 41st anniversary coming up while I'm in Japan. I tried to use a different stamp but kept coming back to TGF's stamp...LOL! Anyhow, here it is and thanks for stopping by! Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend! Aloha!

I promise I'll try to post one of the tutorials I promised earlier. I've taken pics of the project, just need to write it up. Hopefully I can have that up before I leave.

Before I forget, there's a sidewalk sale at Kahala Mall and Pineapple Cove will be participating! Check out their flyer and head on over there this weekend! ManLe and Victor are the coolest owners (^o^)

Moss Scape Quickpages

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! Us? Well we pretty much stayed home and organized our home and did laundry since dh will be on travel this week and as soon as he gets back we're off to Japan! So excited but I know I'll miss my little Roxy! With that being said, I wasn't able to make any cards but made some Quickpages for Mindy that should be available Sunday Jul 12 at DD. She wanted something pretty simple (which is usually how I like creating my pages) so it wasn't really that hard...just very time consuming. So here are the quickpages and I've include a page or two for my own LOs (they are in progress, but thought I'd show you some samples). Enjoy and as always thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Ooooh, I'm so sorry I haven't posted the tutorials yet, I needed to finish these quickpages for Mindy before I leave for Japan. Hopefully I will be able to do it sometime this week. I've got to do a few more cards before I leave so they can reach their recipients on time! Aloha!

Stomp by Mindy Terasawa

Check this kit out! For all of you that have boys or want to create boy cards this kit is for you! I'm always finding it hard to create anything masculine and when I saw Mindy creating this kit I knew I had to have it! Its just too cute and I love the colors! Stomp will be available for purchase on Sunday, July 5 at DD.

Note Purse

OK I have no one to give this to but wanted to make it. I'm glad I made this cause I had the hardest time putting it together. Yeah it's a simple purse but sometimes when it's my first time creating it, I always make tons of mistakes! I'm thinking I should do it one way but I really should have followed the directions step by step! Ugh...oh well live and learn! Anyhow, as I uploaded the picture I can see some minor mistakes here and there so good thing this was just a test run.

I'll post the tutorial for the GC holder and a link to a tutorial for this one tomorrow (hopefully). It's late and I'm feeling blah! Its a wonder I decided to create tonight! As usual, thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Gift Card Holder Folder

Quick post! Made this gift card holder folder cause I'm always in search to make my gift cards a bit more personal since buying someone a gift card isn't the most personal gift one can give. I can never have too many gift card holders and when I saw this, I thought it was oh so adorable. I will post a tutorial which you can find anywhere on the web but if you're too lazy to search as I am at times I will post a tutorial. LMK otherwise I will not post the tutorial...LOL! It's late and I've been running around town today and had an unexpected appointment which threw my schedule off completely! Here it is as usual thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Bad News

For those who wanted to buy a Sweetie and haven't, I'm sorry to inform you that I will no longer sell the Sweeties via digital format. I was informed today by Mindy that since she's a designer for DD that she has signed a contract to sell her digital creations only through them. And because Mindy's not selling them on their website she feels it's best that we discontinue selling them digitally. However, the rubber stamps are still a go and as soon as I find a manufacturer to produce them I will let you know! I'm sorry for those that have missed the opportunity to buy them (had plans to discontinue the digital format once they became rubberized anyways) but fear not, they will be out in rubbah soon! (^o^)

Digital Scrapbook Class and a card

Aloha! Man did this weekend fly by or what? I didn't get to craft much like I had planned but what can I do? I did manage to change my blog background and banner and ugh, it can be a pain sometimes!!! Don't you hate it when you know how to do something and you've done it a million times and yet when it's time to do it again, it doesn't always goes as planned? Anyhow I used Mindy's newest kit for my blogwear. What do you think? OK? LOL! Speaking of Mindy's kit and digital...I met ManLe of Pineapple Cove (new scrapbook store at Kahala Mall) and she and I got to talking and we're thinking of having some beginners digital scrapbooking class. How many of my blog sisters are interested? Leave a comment or email me. Let me know what you want to learn and what experiences you have as far as digital scrapbooking. Sounds good? I'm excited for this new venture. Oh and for those that loves Mindy's kits, I have gotten permission from her to use her kits for the classes. Classes won't start until August. ManLe and I are still discussing it and I want to get a feel for what people want to learn.

OK, onto my card. Really, really simple card! I got a beautiful card from Teri of Big Ideas from a Little Girl (I got to remember to post it!) and I lifted it! I love how my card is so simple and love how the card is folded. OK, thanks for stopping by and please let me know about the digital scapbooking class.

Little Tea House Kit by Mindy Terasawa

As promised here are Mindy's latest kit called Little Tea House (avail this coming Sunday at DD). This kit is perfect for Tea Party invitations (we have many of them in California!) and I believe there may be a few places here in HI that holds them. Or for girlie birthday parties!!! I already know what I'll be making with these, can't wait! I'm also including the kit that came out a couple of weeks ago called School Daze. I know school is out for most of your kids and it's too late but for those that are year round maybe this kit will come to good use. If not, you can start on your child's school goodies for the upcoming school year. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

RAK from Michelle of Mushi's Creative Inspirations

I got these goodies from Michelle of Mushi's Creative Inspiration. She's such a sweet person and so happy to have met her through this wonderful world of Blogland! Her card is gorgeous especially in IRL!!! The butterfiles and flowers all have glitter on it! So, so pretty!!!! Love it!! I also got the Magnolia stamp which is my first one!!! Yeay!! I have some stamp images from friends but this is my first one...woohoo! Thank you Michelle!!! Head on over to her blog, she has gorgeous creations and she's gonna be giving away some blog candy and the creation she made is absolutely gorgeous! I hope I win...LOL!

Come back later as I will post a preview of Mindy's new kit coming out this Sunday!!

Happy Hump Day!

Sorry for the short entries these last few days! I've been so busy with work and appointments. And to top it off my dh signed us up for golf lessons...ugh! LOL! I've always wanted to take them but this week has been busy and been going to the hospital (no worries just wanted to get something checked) for the last two days and I was just so not in the mood. Another reason why I was a bit hesitant cause I have no hand-eye coordination so I thought it would be a waste of time...but needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed it! I missed hitting the ball here and there but I got quite a few ones out there...woo hoo! LOL! OK, thanks for letting me get that out! haha!

On to today's creation. The tote is from PTI and I had bought it when it first came out and am just now using it. Been dying to make it but didn't have anyone to give it to until now...LOL! I love it and want to make more. But I'm the type of person who only makes 3D type stuff only if I have someone to give it to. I would hate to make one and just have it sit around my craft area collecting dust waiting for a good home. So I usually make them when needed and thankfully I had someone to give it to. This is to one of my blog sisters who's super sweet. I hope she likes it.

I actually made the tote first and after I put it all together I realized that HK was white...I should have made her tan. Lets just say Miss Hello Kitty was visiting from Japan and she was super white and now that she's been here for a few days she's gotten her tan on (^o^) LOL! Corny I know!

OK now onto my tip on printing digi papers. Now I'm pretty sure that most of you print 8.5 x 11 right? You open the the DP and crop at 8.5 x11. Then you open the next DP and do the same and so on and so fourth. You probably don't use the whole sheet and left w/scraps that you probably save for later (but most of us know you don't always go back to use them). So here's how I do it and I've been able to save my ink. What I do it open up four of the DP I want to print. Then I crop each to 4.25x5.5. Once I got all four DP cropped, I then transfer them onto an 8.5x11 sheet. So basically I have four DP on one 8.5x11 paper. I don't have to print out all four DP individually. So finally when I print, I go to my settings and choose "borderless paper" which prints on the entire sheet. Check your printer settings and look around for these settings, they may be worded differently but do the same thing. So there you have it! Please feel free to leave me a comment or email me should you have any questions!